BENCHMARKS: What we will learn and be able to do:

1. Demonstrate how sound can change in pitch and volume.
2. Compare and contrast the change in length, tension, or thickness of a vibrating object on the frequency of vibration (e.g. string, wire, or rubber band)
3. Demonstrate that the pitch of a sound is dependent on the frequency of the vibration producing it.

Essential Questions: To Guide Our Scientific Quest For Knowledge About Sound:

1. How do we as scientists learn about sound?
2. What is sound and why is it important?
3. How do we hear sounds?
4. How would our lives be different if we couldn't hear?
5. Is sound more important to a bat than to me? Why or why not?

Our Voice Thread About Sound:


Reading Information
Scientific Terms About Sound
Phil Tulga: Sound Activities
5th Grade Web Page About Sound
Frequency and Pitch Activity

Video Clips








Games

• Magic School Bus Sound Game: Get An Earful
• Internet Guitar Experiment about Pitch and Volume Changing Sounds

Experiments

• Science of Sound: Hands on Activities
• The NASA Science Files : Sound Activities>
• Screaming Balloon
• Glass Xylophone
• Glass Xylophone Part II
• Super Sounding Drums
• String Telephone
• Stereo Hanger
• Guitar
• Bottle Hit and Blow
• Halloween Sounds
• Singing Glasses
• Singing Pipes
• Musical Straws
• Water Whistle
• Buzzing Noise Maker
• Vuvuzela Horn
• Cornstarch Monsters
• Whirly--The Twirling Sound Hose
• Glass Xylophone
• Sound and Noise
• Model Eardrum
• Singing Rod

Making Musical Instruments

• 24 Easy to Make Musical Instruments
• 20 How to Make Musical Instrument Videos
• Homemade Musical Instruments

Sound Clips

• Soundgle
• Kids Ear Pagesou